Mexico Hosts Regional Conference on Maternal Mortality Prensa Latina
go to original June 5, 2012

MEXICO CITY - International experts will meet here from Tuesday on in order to discuss strategies for strengthening the political commitment to women's reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The regional conference Maternal Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Unfinished Agenda will be attended by 200 specialists from 20 nations, according to reports.

This event was called, among others, by the Regional Working Group for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality (GTR) and the Women Deliver organization.

According to GTR, meeting the Millennium Development Goal relating to reducing this indicator by 75 percent between 1990 and 2015 and achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015 is an urgent commitment to this area.

Meanwhile, Women Deliver, which is a global advocacy organization, said that about 800 women die every day during pregnancy or when giving birth, while many others have damages to their health.

The results of this meeting, which ends Wednesday, will help to create the agenda for the Third Global Conference of Women on this subject, which will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from May 28 to 30, 2013.

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